June 1900 - June 28, 1900 (Thursday)

June 28, 1900 (Thursday)

• In Vienna, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir renounced the right of succession, of his future offspring, to the throne of Austria-Hungary, in order to marry Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkova in an oath of a morganatic marriage before Foreign Minister Goluchowski. The marriage took place the following Sunday. The couple had four children: Princess Sophie von Hohenberg was born the following year on 24 July 1901, while Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg was born on 28 September 1902 and Prince Ernst von Hohenberg in 1904. There was also a stillborn son born in 1908. Exactly 14 years after his oath regarding the status of his marriage, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife the Duchess Sofie were assassinated. This was Sunday June 28, 1914, as part of a campaign to form a Greater Serbia of which Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a province in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, would be a part. World War I.